[SlugLUG] Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Released

[Matt Thrailkill]

I upgraded my desktop from Dapper to Edgy, and it screwed up my raid
array.  I was able to make it work again by setting up loopback devices
for each drive, and then starting the raid with them instead of the
original ones.  Seems like a silly fix though.

I've got Compiz going though, and it is pretty nice.  REALLY nice, even.
I've been really enjoying using it.  With the beta nvidia drivers that
are out right now, you don't have to use xgl.  So Compiz and all the
compositing effects don't entail much of a performance hit.  So I can do
stuff like still play WoW at acceptable speeds.

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 09:56 -0800, Karl Young wrote:
> I just upgraded two systems with no problems.  Both were fairly recent
> Dapper Dan installs.
> 
> -karl
> 
> Peter Belew(abcruzww at gmail.com)@2006.11.04 09:45:36 -0800:
> > Hi -
> > 
> > On 11/4/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > This is true, edgy does not have LTS and will only be supported for
> > > something like 18 months.
> > >
> > > This is the reason I kept my server on dapper, but I figured I could
> > > risk my laptop..
> > 
> >  The system I have it on is a secondary one, so it's not a
> >  real worry. If I really cared I'd debut the X initialization
> >  problem, but as I said, I want to repartition the machine
> >  anyway, and there's not much data on it. ...
> > 
> > >
> > > Sorry that your upgrade didn't pan out...I've heard that a lot of people
> > > have been having trouble.
> > 
> >  Interesting to hear that! Thanks!
> > 
> >  - Peter
> > >
> > > --Rohan
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 23:40 -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
> > > > Ultimately, my X configuration was screwed up after an upgrade
> > > > and reboot. I can't log in to Gnome. Other servers work ok - mysql, apache, etc.
> > > >
> > > > I am going to re-install, and revert back to 6.06, a stable
> > > > version, and just update from there. (I want to re-partition the
> > > > drive anyway, keeping /home in its own partition).
> > > >
> > > > Ubuntu will support 6.06 longer than 6.10, apparently.
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I think there was a hardware problem toward the end of the installation -
> > > > > the system froze and had to be restarted. So the problems after that
> > > > > are probably due to some missing files. It was possible to recover,
> > > > > but basically it took another hour.
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/26/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > > > > Mine was as straightforward as possible.  Just ran update manager, let
> > > > > > it hang out for an hour.  Came back to reboot and everything was just
> > > > > > dandy.  They replaced the i686 kernel with a "-generic" kernel.
> > > > > > Weird...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --Rohan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 20:22 -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> > > > > > > My total installation time was about 2 1/2 hours, counting fixing problems.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Peter
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > Looks like this was recoverable.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Among other things, I had to do
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >   dpkg --recover -a
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > and resolve some broken package dependencies, mainly involving
> > > > > > > > removing acpid.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Peter
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Looks like trying to install 6.10 on that system was a disasterous
> > > > > > > > > mistake. Dozens of errors - files lost, X doesn't run.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Good thing I tried the "upgrade" on a system that's not important!
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Peter
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > I just started an upgrade to 6.10 on one of my systems. I noted
> > > > > > > > > > the warning that 6.10 is not a long-time-support release, only
> > > > > > > > > > 18 months. Also 3rd-party upgrades are initially turned off - you
> > > > > > > > > > will have to go back and re-enable them and do an upgrade
> > > > > > > > > > with apt-get or synaptic etc.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > The upgrade reminds you that upgrading with a 56k modem will
> > > > > > > > > > take about 25 hours. :) No worry for me though!
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Peter
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On 10/26/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > For anyone who isn't aware, that edgy eft thing came out and most people
> > > > > > > > > > > are having fun with it.  just do a 'gksudo "update-manager -c"' and wait
> > > > > > > > > > > an hour to upgrade.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Also, Fedora Core 6 is out.  Although I haven't used fedora in quite
> > > > > > > > > > > some time, I hear this new release sports a number of new packages and
> > > > > > > > > > > is quite stable.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > --Rohan
> > > > > > > > > > >
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